En route vers la francophonie

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Leçon 1: Introduction.
  • What is a Francophone?
  • What is la francophonie?
  • Where do people speak French? (prepositions à, en, au, aux)
  • Regular -ER verbs (present tense)
  • Irregulars (mettre, faire, aller, vouloir, pouvoir)

Leçon 2: Les franco-fêtes
  • read about festivals and celebrations in various Francophone countries
  • interrogative words: qui, quand, comment (s'appelle/s'appellent), où, que / qu'est-ce que, quel/quelle/quels/quelles, pourquoi, combien
  • forming questions: intonation, est-ce-que, inversion.
  • Irregular verb venir

Leçon 3: Faisons l'épicerie au marché!
  • identify foods associated with different Francophone countries
  • identify currencies associated with different Francophone countries
  • Regular -ER, -IR and -RE verbs (present tense)
  • "Identity Crisis" and "Spell-changing" verbs

Leçon 4: De grands personnages de la Francophonie
  • select important details from a written text
  • write a poem
  • present a poem orally
  • identify well-known Francophones from various countries
  • describe the personality and accomplishments of well-known francophones
  • recognize and use various parts of speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, etc)

Leçon 5: La langue française dans tous ces états
  • understand proverbs
  • extract information from a text
  • identify French-Canadian regional expressions
  • compare cultural elements of French proverbs to the English equivalents
  • use regular -er, -ir, and -re verbs, as well as several irregulars (present tense)

Leçon 6: La vie quotidienne
  • identify elements of daily life in various Francophone countries according to the categories cultural symbols, transportation, currency, and public services
  • use authentic French documents to complete a variety of activities
  • identify and use in context the negative expressions ne...pas, ne...jamais, ne...plus, ne...rien and ne...personne.

Leçon 7: Test de l'unité